Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · chapter 12 · id zero-to-one-c12-09-cleantech-founders-lacked-tech

“Cleantech founders lacked technical backgrounds -- Thiel characterizes them as 'men in suits' rather than genuine technologists who 'wear T-shirts and jeans.'”

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Electronic Specifier -- Solyndra CEO Brian Harrisonsource alive

Brian Harrison held a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and was a veteran of Intel Corporation, VP and GM of Intel Europe. He was technically trained, not a non-technical 'suit.'

Bessemer VP -- Eight Lessons from Climate Tech Boom and Bustsource alive

Many VC investors 'applied software heuristics to things clearly not software companies.' The problem was not non-technical founders but VCs who misunderstood hardware business models.

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